say: here     here: hear     still: hours     bud until split     stretches: a body / out

Vignettes of/with the Russian Dictionary of Imperial and Soviet Prison Slang

through my eyelids / yellow wall / of sun was I

For the sake of this poem as / a citable document, I'll name / just the one breath this time

I’ve been lying for a long time, so let me tell you a story. / We can never go back to who we were, despite the bravado

A partial erasure of King Lear

This is a body / and this body is this thing of terror—how / in this world every / woman is a survivor and every...

what would queer visions of the family network look like?

"taken-Black" …girl, too umber for proper / amber alert. Black / girl, skipped right past “missing” into / “Lost: B L A C K girl”. nobody / even noticed

You are younger than her labor for [redacted aircraft manufacturing company].